Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-07-01
THE NEW DECLARATION OF ISDE-
PENDENCE.
hEV =. o. HAIR.

ana nller long ana patient endurance o
Il lngrant wrongs, and alter having made
many and fruitless efforts to obtain re-
dress, until # IN plainly evident that moth.
ing can be hoped IRON appeals 10 hip JUS
tice or mercy, we, the people OF these Uni
ted States, having reRolversst TO cHst of the
authority OF this tyfant, do unite in thi'
declaration OF the causes and rensonS which
conhtrain us to take 30 important a step,
and OF the miseries and grievances which
have been inflicted on us by him, until
his government has become burden toe
heavy 10 be longer borne. The history o.
hin course toward IN in The past, IL his-
tory OF repeated injuries and usurpalions
all having in direct object the establish
ment OF an absolute tyranny over these
states, and the subsection OF the people,
through their depraved appetite and pass
tons, to his complete control.
To prove this, let facts be submitted 10
n candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary Tor the pub.
lie good.
He has caused the enactment OF lawr
which have opened the sluice ways OF de-
struction, pouring forth upon the people
of this land dreadful tide of intemper-
nhce, with all the attendant evils OF
drunkenness, disease and death.
He has bribed IN various ways, and un-
der various disguises, the legislators, the
Judges and the juries of the country, to
prevent the enactment and the execution
of laws however needful for the welfare
OF the public, which would interfere with
his neiarious traffic in Intoxicating liquors,
or prevent the accumulation Of wealth by
himself at the expense OF the comfort, the
for tunes. the lives, and the future we'll
being of his victims.
He has taken away our property, earned
by patient, faithful labor, and reduced our
families to beggary and want.
He has diverted the wealth of the ma
tion from its proper Office to the support
of the criminal, the pauper and the idiut,
caused TO become such by his blighting
influence.
He has locked up vast sums Of money
from the legitimate uses Of trade and
commerce in the jailS, the penitentiarles
and the asylums, these having been made
necessary by the vices and crimes he has
into activity among the people.
He has exorted many millions from
the laborers of the nation, to be expended
III maintaining the police forces, the courts
of Justice, and all the machinery of gov
ernmenti devoted largely to a vain effort
to remedy the evils he himself has inflicted
upon society.
He has transformed the fruits OF the
earth, given for the sustenance of man and
beast, into death dealing poison which
changes men into demons.
He has diverted the labors of thousands
from productive occupations, to the pre-
and distribution of the aery food
which desolates our land.
He has smitten the people with insanity
and idiocy, and filled our asylums with
manincs and drlveling idiots, rs well ms the
prisons with our institutions tor the feeble
minded with criminals
He has ehtced our boys from their
homes, and aent them forth as tramps and
vagabondE in the land, and instead Of good
citizens, they have become the dangerous
classes of society.
He has won our young men from lives
Of subriety, industry and frugalty, to a
course o: drunkenness, Incidence and
He has drawn away our Young women
from tine paths Of virtue to aens of infamy,
and frighlGnl depths of degradation.
lie is responsible, directly or indirectly.
for three-lour,hs OF all the crimes com
milted, and lour-ffths of all the murders
done.
He has dragged down the gifted and no
BILE OF all Glasses from positions OF honor,
trust and usefulness, and, with ruined rep
uaions and names dIsgraceh, has con-
signed them To drunkard's grave and a
doom.
lie has bligted the sunny, happy years
Of childhood, and caused the little ones to
pass their lives in sqnalor, misery and
want and homes that might have been
the abodes Of perennial happness, have
been turned into habitaions OF internal
cruelty.
He hns proslituted the public press to
his purposes and uses, 20 that, too often,
instead Of molly speaking out for justice
and right, and the good Of the people at
large, it baselY yields to his demands to he
sustained in his efforts TO crush and ruin
our race.
He has infatuated very MANY OF the Of
fee seekers and Office holders with the be-
lief that it is tar more important to pro-
mote his interests than 10 labor for the
welfare of the people nj large;
He has changed, in many places the
Holy Sabbath, with its hours OF peaceful
quiet, a day devoted to religious observ
ancesi and the worship Of Almighty God,
10 n day OF revelry, drur kennesa and de-
bauchery.
In every stage of these expressions we
have peiitioned for redress in The most
humble terms; our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury.
ruler whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define tyrant, is
unfit 10 be the sovereign ol free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our alieu-
lions to those engaged in making aud sell
ing alcoholic drinks. We have implored
them to have pity upon The suffering wife,
and the ragged, starving children F.; we have
appealed 10 every sentiment OF our COM
mon nature to induce them to withhold
the deadly draught IRON our boys, and
young men, and the hnbilual drunkard,
hut all In vain. They. too. have been depf